Patent GB-190522239-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for Delineating Character According to the Shape or Dimensions of the Hand.
Inventor: MARVIN HARRY NORTON
Filed: 1905-10-31
Granted: 1906-03-08
Abstract: 22,239. Marvin, H. N., and Casler, H. Oct. 31. Chiromautic apparatus.-Apparatus for indicating character according to the length and breadth of the hand comprises means for gauging the hand and imparting a particular sensation, and a device for delivering a corresponding printed ticket from one of a series of receptacles. Coin-freed mechanism is also described. The apparatus, shown in section in Fig. 2, is operated by turning a main shaft 44. The gauging - device, shown in Fig. 12, consists of a series of pins 78, on which the hand is placed, a guide block 76, Fig. 2, being provided. Below the pins is a plate having two slots at right-angles and a carriage to slide along each slot. Each carriage supports a transverse pivoted bar 81 of the section shown, which is pressed up by a spring. The pins being pressed against the hand cause the operator to think that the hand is being investigated. Below each bar 81 is a pawl 82, which is held away from a rack on the slotted plate by the bar 81 while this is itself pressed down by the pins under the hand. When the bar 81 can raise the pins as shown, the pawl engages its rack and stops the carriage. The carriage shown has pivoted below it a bell-crank lever 49, and serves to shift this lever bodily towards a selecting-device 41. The other carriage serves to rotate the same lever, the final position of which depends on both the length and breadth of the hand. Both carriages are operated from the main shaft 44 by the arm 100, rods 99, 95, 93, and a lever, Fig. 2. The selecting-device consists of a stepped block 41, over which the end of the lever 49 comes to rest. This lever carries a rod 50 which engages one of the steps when the block 41 is lifted, and determines the extent of this lift by coming against a plate 51. The block 41 is lifted by an arm 45, yieldingly held on the main shaft by a spring, and this through a link 40 gives a lateral shift to a pin 36 of a bell-crank. This pin slides a bar 21 within a transverse bar 17 a distance which determines which style of ticket shall be delivered. This delivery of tickets is effected by pushers 31 operated by pawls 29, Fig. 4, pivoted to the sliding bar 21. There are half as many pawls as ticket receptacles, and they are arranged vernier fashion so that successive pushers are operated by shifting the sliding bar 21 equal distances. The selected ticket is delivered by a shoot 34 when the bar 17 is moved forward, this being effected from a shaft 101, Fig. 2, itself rocked from the main shaft. Dash-pots are added to prevent slamming of the operating lever. A coin-freed device which may be used is shown in Fig. 19, the coin acting as a connexion between the main shaft 44 and an arm 106 for rocking the shaft 101, the arm 106 being carried by a sleeve. The coin falls into a receptacle 110, and is released after the operation by the arm 106 being held, as shown, by a triangular piece 117 pulled by a spring. As the main spindle is turned back, the coin drops to a shoot 118, and a cam then releases the triangular piece and allows springs to restore the parts to their initial position.